Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.
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China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a free open-weight coding model that outperformed Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT on a frontend coding benchmark, causing a selloff in semiconductor and AI stocks. Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies fell as a result, with Bitcoin increasingly trading as a leveraged bet on AI capital cycle sentiment rather than crypto-specific developments. The model's release echoed the earlier DeepSeek shock, with traders calling it a "Kimi moment" that challenged assumptions about scarce, expensive, U.S.-controlled frontier AI.